Barbara Berry Webb, Garden Designer, 78

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Barbara Berry Webb, 78, a garden designer who was active in the
Washington Youth Garden program at the National Arboretum, died of
cardiac arrest May 8, 2002, at Suburban Hospital in the metropolitan
Washington DC area, after a long struggle with cerebellar degeneration.

Mrs. Webb, who lived in Bethesda, Maryland, was born in Fort Dodge,
Iowa. She grew up in Kalamazoo, Michigan. After college, she was an
economist with the Treasury Department in Washington.

Later, she lived in New Haven, Connecticut, where her husband, Carleton
Eugene Webb, studied at Yale University, and after that in Beirut. In
1957, they returned to Washington, where he joined the staff of the
World Bank.

Mrs. Webb was active in the Acorn Garden Club and Art Group in
Westmoreland Hills. She studied landscape design at the University of
Maryland and pursued a career designing gardens. For two years, she
lived in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Kampala, Uganda, where her husband
was assigned with the World Bank.

After he retired in 1988, they traveled the world. He died in 1996.